I bought a six-button pad in order to play the original Mortal Kombat and that’s truly the only game in my fifty-ish deep collection I felt necessitated that controller. Everything else worked just fine with the stock three-button setup.

Weird, for some reason I’ve spent all this time thinking Daemon X Machina was either a first or second-party exclusive. Though now that I learn it’s Marvelous, the story being a cliche-ridden mess of anime tropes and the gameplay being repetitive as hell just seems par for the course.

If the sequel’s the only thing they’re funding and the original’s still fair game a la Bayonetta then there’s legitimate cause for complaint. And Aksys’ involvement makes things a lot more nebulous. More so if Marvelous still has any claim to the original.

I mean, on the one hand I’m totally on board with everything you’re saying. On the other, while ‘cancel culture’ may not have killed Alec Holowka, it was undoubtedly what pushed him towards the decision to take his own life.

Friends was always a terrible show, but in basically the same ways that every other nineties sitcom was terrible. They were just as broad and schmaltzy as anything the eighties produced, but Poochie-fied.